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2001a). Thus, mood lability is not a useful diagnostic feature to distinguish the two conditions, but borderlinetype impulsive behaviors (such as cutting) are much less common in bipolar disorder. When clinicians simply pay attention to standard definitions of mania and hypomania, most patients with bipolar disorder, even type II, can reasonably be distinguished from borderline personality disorder (Benazzi 2000). Again the key is to get beyond simply symptom overlap, such as mood lability, and use the other diagnostic validators, especially course and family history, as described throughout this chapter (Paris 2004).